The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging

Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So

Chicago seems an ideal environment for public housing because of the city’s relatively young age among major cities and well-deserved reputation for technolog

Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to f

When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of i